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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Cuckoo''''' was one of 24 gunboats of the [[Ant Class Gunboat (1870)|Ant class]].
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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Cuckoo''''' was one of twenty-four [[Ant Class Gunboat (1870)|Ant class gunboats]].
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Launched in 1873, she became a base ship in Devonport in 1912, taking the name H.M.S. ''Vivid''. In 1920, she became ''Vivid'' (Old), and finally designated YC37 in 1923.
  
 
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Latest revision as of 08:51, 17 March 2018

H.M.S. Cuckoo (1873)
Builder: Laird
Launched: 14 Aug, 1873[1]
Sold: 1959[2]
H.M.S. Cuckoo was one of twenty-four Ant class gunboats.

Launched in 1873, she became a base ship in Devonport in 1912, taking the name H.M.S. Vivid. In 1920, she became Vivid (Old), and finally designated YC37 in 1923.

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 281.
  2. Lyon; Winfield. The Steam & Sail List. p. 281.

Bibliography


Ant Class Gunboat
Ant Class
Ant Arrow Badger Blazer Bloodhound
Bonetta Bulldog Bustard Comet Cuckoo
Fidget Hyaena Kite Mastiff Pickle
Pike Scourge Snake Snap Weazel
Gadfly Class
  Gadfly Griper Pincher Tickler  
<– H.M.S. Plucky Small Fry (UK) Ariel Class –>
<– H.M.S. Plucky Gunboats (UK) Ariel Class –>